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'2030' future car: a solar-powered van good for you or the Pope

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 21:25:00 GMT

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'2030' future car: a solar-powered van good for you or the Pope

Stamati's vision of 2030 has us driving in solar-powered, four-seater, door-slidin' boxy cars with green windows and plenty of visibility. A cylindrical add-on can be fixed to the rear of the vehicle for extra seating (complete with a bar-style desk), and, also located at the rear, there are two electric engines. Both engines must be a bit on the weak side as the 2030 future car tops out at 20 miles per hour. That means it's probably only good for short-range urban driving or for use in special situations, such as at large amusement parks. Come to think of it — looking at the 2030 — you could also slap some bulletproof windows on there and you got the Pope's next glass-cage-on-wheels. And this one actually looks good to boot.

Check out the gallery below for more of Mihai Stamati's 2030 car concept.

Mihai Stamati, via Ecofriend, via The Design Blog

Tags: tech

Why only 'modern' feminists hate Palin

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 18:55:12 GMT

clipped by: jatfla
clipper's remarks: I believe his idea is right on target.

Clip Source: townhall.com

Why only 'modern' feminists hate Sarah Palin

Sarah Palin has become the most historic feminist icon in a decade. For this honor she has been subjected to derision, ridicule, and endless sexist contempt by not just the Obama/Biden presidential campaign, but other "modern" feminist voices to boot.

Palin's nomination and amazing composure in the heat of the national spotlight have so frightened Obama in fact that he has unleashed "feminist attack dogs" (their words not mine) and are now beginning to tout some of the most sexist, divisive, and backwards minded rhetoric in a generation. The "modern feminists" don't like Palin, she scares them, intimidates them, and shatters the presuppositions of the Steinem, Allred, NARAL, and Oprah crowd. One them (guess which one) is in fact so afraid of her influence, she has refused her a spot on her daily nationally televised talk show.

Acclaimed Journalist Amy Goodman Arrested

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 05:47:45 GMT

clipped by: dmtherob
clipper's remarks: This is a clear violation of the first amendment. Amy and her crew had clearly visible Press badges and the camera's were in plain view. Amy and her crew were filming and reporting on the protester's at the RNC.

Clip Source: seattlepi.nwsource.com

Government crackdowns on journalists threaten democracy

AMY GOODMAN
SYNDICATED COLUMNIST

Nicole was videotaping. Her tape of her own violent arrest is chilling. Police in riot gear charged her, yelling, "Get down on your face." You hear her voice, clearly and repeatedly announcing "Press! Press! Where are we supposed to go?" She was trapped between parked cars. The camera drops to the pavement amid Nicole's screams of pain. Her face was smashed into the pavement, and she was bleeding from the nose, with the heavy officer with a boot or knee on her back. Another officer was pulling on her leg. Sharif was thrown up against the wall and kicked in the chest, and he was bleeding from his arm.

Tags: amy goodman, riot, riots, police, arrest

Ecuador Giving U.S. Air Base the Boot

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 15:34:21 GMT

clipped by: tabsey

Clip Source: www.democraticunderground.com

Prevailing Nationalism, Investment From Elsewhere Make American Presence Obsolete

MANTA, Ecuador -- When U.S. officers stationed in this humid coastal city give reasons they should continue their decade-old airborne surveillance mission, they talk not only about fighting drug runners on the open seas but about the $71 million they've spent to renovate and maintain the city's airport, and the $6.5 million they inject each year into the local economy.

But the government of Ecuador has decided, and Washington has apparently agreed, that one of the most important foreign outposts in the United States' war on drugs will close. The 450 U.S. Air Force personnel and contractors stationed at a military base that shares the airport's runway will be leaving next year.

"This is a problem for us of sovereignty," Larrea said. "It's as if we had a base in New York. This would be incomprehensible for North Americans."

Goodman tells of violent arrest

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 02:27:22 GMT

clipped by: masbury
clipper's remarks: On RNC convention floor when she hears colleagues bloodied. One kicked in chest, one thrown to the ground, despite complete non-participation in demonstration, obvious press passes, and media equipment.
Now we shall see if Republicans really do favor small government and individual rights.

Clip Source: www.twincities.com

Goodman said she was on the convention floor

when she heard that her producers had been arrested and were bloodied

she ran from the Xcel Energy Center to the site of the arrests

"I went up the riot police line," Goodman said. "I said, 'I'd like to talk to a commanding officer.' "

"They took me, handcuffed me immediately, said, 'You're under arrest,' " Goodman said. "They pushed me to the ground. I said, 'You can clearly see I have all the proper credentials, I have my security clearance for the (convention) floor.' "

The producers, Sharif Abdel Kouddous and Nicole Salazar

when they saw, from the window of their Jackson Street office, riot police on the street.

"They just knocked me to the ground, grabbed my arms,

An officer put his boot between her shoulder blades

Kouddous

said

"I'm media, she's my colleague, please release her."

Kouddous said two or three officers then grabbed him. He said they threw him against a wall and to the ground. An officer kicked him twice in chest, Kouddous said

Tags: rnc, goodman

A Kind of Courage That’s Hard to Translate

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 12:49:32 GMT

clipped by: mugofcoffee
clipper's remarks: You need to read the whole article...such people are amazing really!!!

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

By CARA BUCKLEY

The military translator from Queens sat beside his mother in a wheelchair in a hospital room on Manhattan’s Upper East Side on Thursday. His right leg was encased in a black boot, affixed with Velcro straps from his swollen toes to his knee. What was left of his left leg, which had been amputated at the knee, was wrapped in a snug elastic rubber stocking on which the word “stump” had been scrawled.

The man’s name is Syed Shah and he was grievously wounded in July in a bomb attack on a military convoy in Afghanistan, where he had been working as a translator for soldiers battling the Taliban. Mr. Shah is learning to walk with a prosthetic leg, though his progress is severely hindered because he cannot put any weight on his partly shattered right leg.

Yet to his family’s shock and anguish, and to his doctors’ awe, Mr. Shah is aiming to be back in Afghanistan by year’s end.

Working in Afghanistan instilled in him a sense of purpose that he had not quite felt before.

HWApplicaties.nl maakte de video van de Byte Boottocht

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 18:31:38 GMT

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clipper's remarks: HWApplicaties.nl maakte een kwalitatief hoogwaardige video van de Byte Boottocht, waar de aanwezige webdesigners alle gelegenheid hadden om elkaar te leren kennen.

Clip Source: www.hanwijman.nl

Netwerken op de Byte Boottocht

Evenementen

Op 29 augustus was het gratis Byte seminar ideaal om te netwerken op de boot, die een rondvaart maakte over de Amsterdamse grachten. De video is gemaakt door HWApplicaties.nl .

Bekijk: "Netwerken op de Byte Boottocht"

Video van Byte seminar

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 16:11:37 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Jurgen Rutgers van Besite geeft een presentatie over webmarketing met Google op het Byte seminar van 29 augustus 2008.

Ik heb niet alles gefilmd en ook nog eens sommige stukken niet opgenomen in de montage, waardoor deze video wellicht wat "warrig" is. Daarom een tip!

TIP: Meld je aan voor een kennismakingsaccount by Byte en je bent ook welkom op de seminars.

Clip Source: www.hanwijman.nl

Jurgen Rutgers van Besite geeft een presentatie over webmarketing met Google op het Byte seminar van 29 augustus 2008.

Het gratis Byte seminar wordt iedere laatste vrijdag van de maand in Amsterdam gehouden en is voor webprofessionals, die aan de hand van een onderwerp met elkaar van gedachten willen wisselen. Het uitwisselen van ideeën en het opbouwen/onderhouden van een netwerk is daarbij een belangrijke doelstelling.

Op 23 augustus was een ideaal programma daarvoor samengesteld. De vele aanwezigen konden hun gesprekken voortzetten op een door Byte gecharterde boot, die een rondvaart maakte over de Amsterdamse grachten. Zie de volgende video op het account van HWApplicaties.nl.

Reboot Shortcuts!

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 04:40:01 GMT

clipped by: polaris7

Clip Source: www.howtogeek.com

Create Shortcuts to Quickly Reboot to the Alternate OS in a Vista/XP Dual-Boot

If you have a dual boot system and often switch back and forth from Vista to XP, you've probably already been annoyed with the fact that you have to wait until the boot menu comes up and choose the right OS… and half the time you step away and it ends up booting into the wrong one anyway.

With some simple batch files and command line magic, we can make two shortcuts so you can just simply click to "Reboot Into XP" or "Reboot into Vista", and be done with it.

Dual Boot Vista w/XP part1

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 04:34:30 GMT

clipped by: dbelcher

Clip Source: www.syschat.com

Step 1 - Partition the Drive:

-right-click computer under the start menu and choose "manage"

-The amount you shrink the partition is the amount of space used for the XP partition, so i would suggest making it at least 3-

4GB in size, as a full XP installation will take 1.5GB on it's own.

-now right-click the unallocated memory and select new basic partition.

-click next on the rest of the screens and finish.

once the formatting is finished you will have something like this:

*this new partition is where your XP installation will go, so take note of it's location, in case there are multiple partitions

on the drive (there will now be atleast 2).

McCain picks Alaska gov as running mate.

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 18:38:29 GMT

clipped by: paleblue
clipper's remarks: He's kidding right? So he's 72 today and of course no one wishes anyones death in regard to leaving a country in someones hands in the case of death -- is she it? In his analytical eyes of Obama's inexperience -- she's even less qualified and no ones heard of her to boot.. Is this want we want in case of disaster or at 3am? This is either a stupid political move or they are trying to give the race away! If female Hillary supporters jump onboard with this ticket this shows either of two things -- they are racists and can't except Obama in office or it wasn't about Hillary at all it was gender based.. So what does that say about them? ? Perplexing this is I must say..

Clip Source: news.yahoo.com

McCain picks Alaska gov as running mate.

Emily Dickinson's Friend and Mentor

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 08:02:25 GMT

clipped by: abailart
clipper's remarks: Fascinating (to me).

Clip Source: online.wsj.com

Gnomic and subversive, her poems are shots of triple-distilled whiskey that jolt going down, then radiate, leaving us wide-eyed and slightly fuddled.

Emily Dickinson in what is believed to be the only image of her as an adult, in the early 1850s.

Dickinson more demurely described each of her poems as a "letter to the World,"

Among the recipients of her poems -- and of hundreds of letters -- was Thomas Wentworth Higginson, a Massachusetts blueblood with a mid-19th-century reputation as a free-thinker and writer.

As reclusive as Dickinson's life was, his was cinematic. Father, husband, minister, naturalist, novelist, poet, politician, teacher -- he was these and more. Impatient with armchair reformers, he ran guns to besieged antislavery Free Soilers in antebellum Kansas, a bowie knife stashed in his boot.

• Read an excerpt from 'White Heat'

Dickinson's verse: "poetry torn up by the roots" that "takes one's breath away."

Tags: emily dickinson

A Wedding Party for Terrorists

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:26:02 GMT

clipped by: dl211
clipper's remarks: I don't see how Israel could have agree to this.

Clip Source: frontpagemagazine.com

A Wedding Party for Terrorists

Earlier this month, Israel handed over live terrorists to Hezbollah in exchange for the body parts of two dead soldiers. It wasn’t enough that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas congratulated Hezbollah on this win. Nor was it enough that Abbas’ political party, Fatah, organized a celebration in a show of solidarity with Hezbollah. This month, on his own initiative, Prime Minister Olmert proposed the release of an additional 199 prisoners to President Abbas.

The prisoners were released at the West Bank where they were welcomed as heroes and “freedom fighters” by Palestinian flag-waivers. To boot, President Abbas threw a reception for the prisoners at his Palestinian Authority compound. Ashraf joyfully likened the event to “a national wedding celebration.”

Tags: israel, terrorists, abbas, olmert

Linux Kernel Walkthrough: The Boot Process

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 07:48:35 GMT

clipped by: cyberwiz

Clip Source: excess.org

This is a recording of the second Kernel Walkthrough given by Bart Trojanowski for the Ottawa Canada Linux Users Group. This time Bart covers the x86 boot process in Linux. He gives a presentation with Q+A in the first hour. In the second hour he walks thorough the Linux C and assembly code itself.

Zemanta gets The Boot from Wikipedia

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:52:45 GMT

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clipper's remarks: And I found that Zemanta is in kahootz with Pbwiki.....the proof is in the blog comment I just happened to find...by the way it was Zemanta that escorteP me to the Pbwiki site in the first place....you will notice that the commenter directs the blogger to "satisfaction" webpage which happens to be Pbwiki's Home page...

hmmm...

March 28th, 2008 at 2:07 pm

Hy from Zemanta!

Glad to read your review, I hope you are going to keep using us!

If you have any additional ideas or comments about how Zemanta could be more useful please mail us or use http://getsatisfaction.com/zemanta and leave us feedback so we can discuss it!

bye
andraz

Clip Source: en.wikipedia.org

User talk:Z-lot

A tag has been placed on Zemanta requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia.

Notability of Zemanta

This has been done because the article appears to be about a real person, organization (band, club, company, etc.), or web content, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is notable: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia.

you should read the guide to writing your first article

If you think that you can assert the notability of the subject, you may contest the deletion

I apologize for that bit of carelessness. --Orange Mike | Talk

You seem to have an exaggerated idea of what it takes to make a company notable.

This one clearly fails those parameters, as do most of the millions of small companies around this planet. --Orange Mike | Talk 19:49, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

Clip Source: en.wikipedia.org

Why they call me "Orange Mike";

This user opposes George W. Bush and supports his impeachment and prosecution.